In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free speech and academic freedom...

An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...

Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...

"The Vory" traces the development of the Russian underworld

Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...

The authors examine past countering-violent-extremism (CVE) efforts, evaluate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and interagency efforts to respond to ideological radicalization to violence...

For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...

Sayle examines the history of NATO from its founding in the late 1940s through to its expansion in the post-Cold War era...

Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...

Black argues for an important new typology of conflict between and within civilisations, cultures and states, and, while addressing the limitations of commentary and analysis, observes patterns across history that make sense of recent conflicts – and those that may be about to begin...

In a series of riveting and in depth interviews, America's senior statesman, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension...

Krieg's volume brings together a group of prominent Gulf scholars to discuss the Gulf crisis that pits a Saudi-United Arab Emirates-led alliance against Qatar...

Thailand is one of the world’s last remaining military dictatorships, and the last in Asia.

Michael J. Mazarr has written a history of the policy planning process leading up to the Iraq War in 2003...

In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors...

The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-55 and 1958 occurred at the height of the Cold War...

Borenstein discusses popular conspiracy theories such as the Harvard Project and the Dulles Plan, why and how conspiratorial thinking has flourished in post-Soviet Russia

In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...

Using a variety of different case studies, Schmidt illuminates some of the patterns that have informed western intervention in Rwanda, Somalia, and elsewhere, and the complicated role of international institutions in this process.

What's the connection between globalization and organized crime?

This war machine, as van Vuuren describes it, remains a largely hidden aspect of South Africa’s past – until now...

Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day...

Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...

Goeschel examines the relationship between Hitler and Mussolini and how their relationship developed and affected both countries...